Suppose that the Federal Reserve wants to target a higher interest rate, the Federal Reserve would then:

if the FED wants to increase interest rates, it will generally engage in a contractionary monetary policy. This means that it will decrease the money supply in the economy. A contractionary monetary policy takes place when the FED starts to sell US securities and that way it will take away money from the economy. But in order to make more people want to purchase the securities, it will generally increase the interest rates.

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